By: William Holmes Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions Series returned tonight to the NBC network live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Two fights were featured on tonight’s card and both featured boxers that are looking for future world title shots in the welterweight division. The …
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Roc Nation Boxing on BET Results: Andre Ward wins by TKO in 9
By: Matthew Becher Tonight, live from the Oracle Arena in downtown Oakland, the former lineal Super-Middleweight champion Andre Ward (27-0 14KO) returns from a 19 month layoff, against England’s Paul Smith (35-5 20KO). In a fight that was contracted at a 172lb catch weight. But at Fridays weigh in, Smith …
Read More »David Lemieux Wins IBF Middleweight Title In Thriller Against N’Dam
By Sean Crose “#Lemieux’s punches coming through in surround sound! Can’t believe NDam is still in it!” There was a lot to be gleaned from that single tweet by celebrity and boxing nut Rosie Perez on Saturday evening. For it captured the essence of a battle of attrition in the …
Read More »A Revealing Boxing Tale: The Violent, Graceful Life of Ezzard Charles
By Ivan G. Goldman When you get disgusted with the four quarreling alphabet groups that control the major belts, it’s worthwhile to look at how things worked back in the forties and fifties, when there was only one title in each division and it was controlled by gangsters. Ezzard Charles …
Read More »Preview: David Lemieux To Face Hassan N’Dam For Middleweight Strap on Fox Sports 2
By Sean Crose Paging Gennady Golovkin. Two men who might very well be interested in facing the feared GGG in the near future will be facing each other this Saturday night in Montreal. David Lemieux (33-2) is the hometown hero with a habit of knocking out the vast majority of …
Read More »Jackie Kallen: Is Adrien Broner v Shawn Porter A Toss-up?
By Jackie Kallen I love a fight that is a total 50/50 in my mind before the fighters even touch gloves. I go back and forth about which guy will win and why. The Broner/Porter fight is a hard one to pick. If you pick a fight based on which …
Read More »PBC on CBS Preview: Rances Barthelemy vs. Antonio DeMarco
By: Matthew N. Becher Premier Boxing Champions: Sunday June 21st 4PM/EST Live on CBS What could be better than watching boxing on father’s day for free, not much. That is why this Sunday, June 21st, Premier Boxing Champions will be putting on an afternoon boxing card live from the MGM …
Read More »PBC on NBC Preview: Adrien Broner vs. Shawn Porter, Lo Greco vs. Spence Jr.
By: William Holmes Cincinnati, Ohio native Adrien Broner is set to clash with Akron, Ohio native Shawn Porter on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in what many are calling “The Battle of Ohio”. This bout will be fought at a catch weight …
Read More »PBC’s Aversion to Publicity Makes Adrien Broner-Shawn Porter a Tough Sell
By Ivan G. Goldman The new Premier Boxing Champions outfit has run straight into serious obstacles posed by the obsessive secrecy of its reclusive boss, boxing godfather Al Haymon. And it’s hurting the Adrien Broner-Shawn Porter card on Saturday. Haymon’s loathing for publicity has seeped down to the organization beneath …
Read More »Oscar De La Hoya rejects Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s challenge
By Vitali Shaposhnikov As it goes, it is always effortless to accept and adjust to the better things in life. For Floyd Mayweather Jr., the undefeated boxing superstar for whom money is a priority, generating a bigger profit than he did in his mega bout against Manny Pacquiao ever again …
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